Interviews, James - Seeker or Chaser? (was Re: James/MWPP in Slytherin)

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 83647

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, furkin1712 at a... wrote:
> Taryn:
> > It seems hard to believe that QuickQuotes over at the 
> > Leaky Cauldron would be hosting a fradulent interview. 
> > For referece, the quotes are from an online chat at 
> > Scholastic.com on October 16, 2000.
> ----------
> 
> Blue Eyes wrote
> It always seems hard to believe that interviews are fake.<Snip    
> example> Interviews are not hard to 
> make up, and there are other interviews presumably by JKR in which 
> she swears James is a Seeker. I'm just saying that we can't always 
> trust what we read, if it's on TV that's different but not just a 
> website. 
> 
Pip!Squeak:
But it's not just any website, Blue Eyes. It's an interview that was 
organised and run by JKR's American publishers. A website with a 
faked Scholastic interview/faked Scholastic address would find 
themselves being contacted by lawyers rather quickly.

Further there is no need to argue that the interview is a fake, even 
if it contradicts your theory. It is canon in OOP that Ginny 
believes it is possible to play both the Seeker and the Chaser 
positions in her school Quidditch career. She's currently Gryffindor 
Seeker, but comments that she'd probably prefer being a Chaser.

It's entirely possible that James played both Seeker and Chaser, 
depending on the way the team changed over the years he was playing.

Blue Eyes:
> And why would a Chaser be playing with a Snitch? It makes no 
> sense, besides, Chasers wouldn't necessarily be able to catch the 
> Snitch, they aren't meant to have a Seeker's reflexes or they'd be 
> Seeker's not Chasers now wouldn't they? 

No. Ginny has the reflexes to catch the Snitch - she does in a 
couple of matches in OOP. But she doesn't like the Seeker position 
(which is not a team position - you spend the entire match doing 
nothing but look for the Snitch).

Further, Sirius asks James where he got the Snitch, and James says 
he nicked it. If James were his teams *Seeker* he would have no need 
to nick the Snitch. He could ask to borrow it for some extra 
practice. But if he's *not* the Seeker, he has no legitimate reason 
to have that Snitch, and would have to nick it rather than borrow it.

So, given that the Seeker needs a small light build; it's entirely 
possible that James played Seeker in his first or second year (and 
Gryffindor won the cup, which is why TMTMNBM has him down as 
Gryffindor Seeker on the trophy.

Then he got older, bigger, and a bit bored with looking for the 
Snitch all the time. Another good Seeker came along, and he switched 
to Chaser (and was superb, with all the girls swooning over him and 
Snape jealous of his success in not one, but *two* roles).

And so in OOP flashback, he has to nick the Snitch (because he no 
longer has a legitimate reason to borrow it). But he plays with it 
to show that he *could* still be Seeker if he wanted, and remind 
girls that he was the Seeker when Gryffindor won the Cup. In fact, 
girls, James is so fantastic (in his dreams!), he's been both an 
amazing Seeker, and an amazing Chaser. 

He just can't understand why Lily Evans thinks he's a conceited git. 
Funny things, girls. ;-)

Pip!Squeak